is Model A 5 window improper HOT ROD english??

[QUOTE+oh yeah... calling all old cars "roadsters" that is another one.[/QUOTE]

hahha, got a neighboor who always tells people i have a cool old ford roadster... even knows its a model a, but gets a pissed off look on his face whenever i correct him that its a coupe, hahhaa...

i WISH it was a roadster.. maybe soon!

 

HAHAHA! silly normal people lets all laugh to ourselfs about our utter smartiness HAHAHA! were so knowledgeablely.

 

Saying 5w Model A coupe is like saying 2 legged human. Sure there are some one legged humans but ...

 

Can I still be cool if I have 3 legs?

 

I say who really gives a crap. I wouldn't call it wrong, since it does have 5 windows. It's just a little redundant I guess.

 

Wel, Personally I don't give a flying fuck what anyone thinks. HAHA it's my fucking ride and yes it is a 5 WINDOW MODEL A!!! 1931 for the exact year, and as far as standard or deluxe I could give a rats ass on that as well. It's a 1931 Ford Model A. It would be like calling me a ONE eyed bastard or something like that. Yeah I have ONE eye and I don't go around calling myself one eye, just one eyed willy hahahaha, anyway screw it lets get back to hot rods, so who has a 5 Window Model A here? Anyone have some flathead parts to trade for a 5.0 mustang engine?

 

No, but I'll bet your popular with the ladies!!!

 

cool "coupe"

 

i actually know people who say that any 30's car without fenders is a roadster...it bugs me

 

My favorite was a sign a guy had in front of his Model A in Scottsdale that said "1930 Ford Deuce Coupe".

Model A Five-window is wrong.

 

for real!!

 

Now that is some funny stuff there, but I still like my 5 window model A hehe What's so wrong about it? it does have 5 windows but I guess I could call a 2 door ford escort a 5 window too, oh wait that is a hatch back. hmmmmm what other 5 windows are out there? I really don't think any were ever designated from the factory as a "5 window coupe"

 

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Redundancy in action!

 

I used to get that ALL the time...people still ask i have the "roadster"..i say i never had one..
bug's me too.

 

This thread needs a beer

Bud anyone? http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2008-06-11-bud-inbev_N.htm?csp=34

 

Well, yes. I, too have a 1931 Model A Coupe. It does, indeed, have 5 windows. I've always preferred the 5 window '32 to the three window Deuce, and I was building one when I sold it and started the Model A. Since I was already on the HAMB, I just kept my name. Y'all may just call me SIR if you'd like.

 

Shouldn't they really call the standard coupe a 6 window or is the windshield kinda like a thumb?

 

LOL ya know I have always wondered that as well, but I didn't wanna open another can of worms. good evening gents.

 

Well you don't have five fingers - or do you???? Had a kid in school with six toes on one foot - that was weird.

3/5 windows and a windshield - methinks.

 

So my 28 A modified, built with a roadster pick up body would be a no-window? It has a widscreen. It's a Hallock style windscreen so can I call it a 2 window?

A guy once called it a T-bucket. Tried to explain it was an A. Made no difference.

Hey I've got another one..."FULLY BLOWN" . Anyone know of any partly blown engines? This is a shit thread but I read it all the way to the end so I have earned the right to post

Pete

 

Maybe some of them are half assed and the rest full assed???

 

Ha ha, me too. Who cares. I thought tonight we scheduled a discussion on regulation cuff height. WDF

 

Driver side window#1 Passenger side window #2 Driver side quarter window#3 Passenger side quarter window#4 Back window#5 Windshield! Call it what ever the hell you want. They were all cool and are all both hard to find. It's like someone callin a 4dr. '60s caddy D'ville a 5 hole(coupe??). Get over it.

 

"balanced and blueprinted"

drives me nuts

ask the guy for his blueprint, he looks at you like you're a leper or something.

 

I am so smart,
I am so smart,
S M R T,
I mean s m A r t.

 

Heard a guy say the front was "nosed and decked" once. And not to start this up again, but I just hate it when I hear a chevy called a shoebox.

 

Yes, there were 3Window Model A Ford Coupes, they were called Sport Coupes, looked just like a Cabriolet but the top was fixed, nonfolding.

 

Don't feel slighted!---At early NSRA events (1970) guys with A bone coupes would saw off the tops & call their cars ROADSTERS! To cover up the roll up windows, they just upholstered fabric over the top of the doors! ANYTHING with roll up windows is not a roadster or Phaeton.-------Don

 

I'm going to report this thread to the D.R.D. (Department of Redundancy Department.)

 

On a somewhat related note ...

Awhile back, my 7 year old son asked me what kind of car the "Hot Rod" was?

I explained to him that it is 1932 Ford 5-window coupe ... that his grandfather chopped & channeled it ... and that its engine is from 1958 Chrysler and is called a HEMI. I went on to explain (in details that a 7 year old could understand) what the terms "chopped" and "channeled" mean ... why the engine is called a HEMI ... etc., etc.

It really seemed like he was taking it all in ... he even asked why it's not called a 6-window? ("Dad, why don't they count the windshield?") ... I explained to him that 5wd is a nickname ... that it is actually called a Standard Coupe ... and that the '32 Ford Deluxe Coupe has 3 windows and "suicide doors" (explained that term to him too).

This "father/son conversation" went on for quite some time ... we even talked about all the other body styles offered in 1932 ... and the difference between a roadster and a cabriolet. It was quite the male-bonding session! For the first time in his young life, he really seemed to be genuinely interested in my car hobby (he's pretty much a LEGO & Star Wars fanatic).

Then a couple of weeks ago I was driving my son and his 1st grade classmates on a field trip to a farm. The boys were quite talkative in the back seats ... I heard my son start to tell another boy that "my dad has a Hot Rod" ... but the other kid interrupted him and says "so does my dad ... he's building a Hot Rod in our garage ... it's a Porsche!" ... I was sure that my son would correct his classmate ... but to my dismay, he says "my Dad's hot rod is an old Alfa Romeo Spider ... it's like a roadster ... but more like a cabriolet cuz' it has roll-up windows" ... Arrrrgh!

Later I told them that my Alfa (and the boy's father's Porsche) are really Sports Cars ... not Hot Rods (like my "chop-n-channeled, Hemi-motored, 32 Deuce, 5wd coupe" ).

My son did "redeem himself" last week though ... he went to see the new Indiana Jones movie and came back all excited about the opening scene with a "a bunch of teenagers in a '32 Hi-boy roadster with a rumble seat racing some Army guy's" ... now if I can just tear him away from those damn LEGOs!